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After the court was dispersed, Li Yan wanted to go back to Wende Hall to continue reviewing the memorials.

But before Li Yan could walk out of the hall, the eunuch came to report, and Wang Zezhen asked for a meeting.

Li Yan's trip to the west was really a way to open up a trade route, because only in this way can the waters of Liangshan be truly strong.

Therefore, Li Yan attaches great importance to businessmen, especially these maritime merchants.

For this reason, Li Yan even planned to visit Wang Zezhen's two daughters and then raise them to show his encouragement to the maritime merchants such as Wang Zezhen.

Based on this, Li Yan asked Wang Zezhen to come to the side palace to see him.

Soon, Wang Zezhen came to the side hall to pay homage to Li Yan.

Wang Zezhen knew that Li Yan was busy and could not waste too much time on a small person like him, so he went straight to the point and introduced Xu Derong to Li Yan.

After hearing from Wang Zezhen, Xu Derong earned 200 million yuan in just over a decade of maritime international trade. Li Yan was a little interested in Xu Derong, so he asked Wang Zezhen to bring Xu Derong in.

Xu Derong is indeed very familiar with the current situation in India and the Arab world.

Under Xu Derong's introduction, Li Yan had a very clear preliminary understanding of the current situation in South Asia, Central Asia and West Asia.

Li Yan immediately granted Xu Derong the position of censor.

In the next month, Xu Derong introduced Li Yan to the current situation in South Asia, Central Asia, West Asia and the West every day.

After Li Yan fully understood the current situation in South Asia, Central Asia, West Asia and the West, Li Yan appointed Xu Derong as the country's messenger and Xi Changshi as the deputy envoy. He brought specialties from Liangshan to send Indian countries to discuss maritime international trade.

In order to demonstrate solemnity and strength, Li Yan ordered Tong Wei to bring two treasure ships, twenty sea ships, a battalion of naval forces and corresponding sailors, and ordered Shangguan Yi to take the cavalry of the 500th battalion together with Xu Derong to the Indian countries...

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Although Wanyan Zongwang had reached an armistice agreement on behalf of the Jin Dynasty and the Song Dynasty and withdrew the Jin army from the Song Dynasty, the Jin army from the West still refused to withdraw from the Hedong area, and Taiyuan City was still surrounded by the Jin army.

The commander of the Jin army on the West Road was Wanyan Yinshuke and Wanyan Loushi. They had a clear division of labor, one was responsible for besieging Taiyuan City and the other was responsible for attacking aid.

Relying on this tactic, Song General Zhong Shizhong used an army of 100,000 to rescue Taiyuan. He was defeated by Wanyan Loushi, Wanyan Huo's daughter and son. Zhong Shizhong was beheaded in Xiongling battle formation and defeated Yao Gu's 60,000 rescue troops Yu Yuci.

In early June, Zhao Huan passed the Xuanfu envoy Li Gang and directly issued an edict to Liu Sheng, Jie Qian, Zhe Yanzhi, Zhang Hao and other frontline generals, requiring them to send troops immediately to rescue Taiyuan.

Zhao Huan really couldn't afford to lose Taiyuan City.

If Taiyuan City is lost, the defense line in Hedong may collapse completely.

In this way, there will be no more obstacles north of the Yellow River, and Gong County, the imperial tomb of the Song Dynasty, will also be exposed to the iron hooves of the Jin people.

In the Yong'an tombs in Gong County, seven emperors of the Song Dynasty were buried here, and the tomb of Zhao Kuangyin's father Zhao Hongyin was also moved from Kaifeng to this place, so there is a saying that the Seven Emperors and Eight Tombs were said.

The eight tombs are: Xuanzu Yong'an Tomb, Taizu Yongchang Tomb, Taizong Yongxi Tomb, Zhenzong Yongding Tomb, Renzong Yongzhao Tomb, Yingzong Yonghou Tomb, Shenzong Yongyu Tomb, and Zhezong Yongtai Tomb.

Next to the imperial tombs, there are tombs of concubines, royal families, royal families, minor descendants and tombs of meritorious officials, forming a huge imperial tomb area.

The capital of the Song Dynasty was in Kaifeng, while the imperial tomb area was located in Gong County, far away from the capital. Why is this?

This is mainly related to Feng Shui.

There is a Songyue Shao Room in the south of the Yong'an Imperial Mausoleum District and a Yellow River in the north. It can be said that "the head rests on the Yellow River and the foot is on the Songyue". Moreover, it is adjacent to Qinglong Mountain in the east and Baihu Beach in the west. From a geoscience perspective, this place is indeed a rare Feng Shui treasure land.

If Zhao Huan lost all the ancestral tombs, then his dominance will be seriously affected.

Therefore, Zhao Huan tried his best to rescue Taiyuan City.

Seeing that Zhao Huan's tone of the tone of the order was so stern, no one dared to neglect it. They organized troops to send troops to Liu Sheng from the Pingding Army, the general manager of Zhending Prefecture, and the commander Wang Yuan from Liaozhou, Jie Qian and Zhe Yanzhi from Weisheng Army, and Zhang Hao and Zhe Keqiu from Fenzhou. The four armies marched towards Taiyuan from the east, south and southwest respectively.

But the Jin army first showed weakness, and then bullied the Song army without unified command, luring the enemy into depth one by one, and then defeated each one and defeated the Song army.

Subsequently, the Song general Zhang Sizheng captured many defeated Song army, recruited a large number of volunteers, and gathered more than 100,000 troops to rescue Taiyuan City again, but was defeated by the three thousand Jin cavalry.

At this point, Zhao Huan completely stopped fighting with the Jin army and turned to advocate peace talks without hesitation. He also sent Li Ruoshui to seek peace, hoping to use money to buy the three prefectures of Taiyuan, Hejian and Zhongshan like his father Zhao Ji.

But what Zhao Huan didn't know was that because of the repeated defeats of the Song army, especially the Western Army led by famous generals such as Yao Gu, who were not going to attack the Song Dynasty again, began to discuss the matter of going south again.

The reason why the Jin people were preparing to go south again was not only because Zhao Huan and his ministers were extremely idiotic in military and political terms, which made the Jin people believe that the Song State was extremely weak and bullied, but also because Zhao Huan and his ministers made another big move at this critical moment.

Zhao Huan actually attempted to instigate the Jin general Yelu Yuji through the Jin envoy Xiao Zhonggong, and let Yelu Yuji raise the banner of resurrecting the Liao Kingdom, and then cooperate with the Song Dynasty to destroy the Jin Dynasty together.

If Zhao Huan lacks insight into the situation in internal affairs and military affairs, then Zhao Huan is simply mentally retarded when it comes to diplomatic issues.

Foreign affairs are not trivial, so we should be cautious and cautious, but Zhao Huan actually regarded diplomatic affairs as a joke and sent a Jin envoy to instigate the Jin people!

Is there anyone in the world who is stupider than this?

Some people may say that this is all a matter of the prime minister. Zhao Huan was just inexperienced and was misled by the ministers.

shit!

There are not uncommon ministers around Zhao Huan, nor are there any ministers who can see the situation clearly. Li Gang and Zhong Shidao have given Zhao Huan good advice, and more than one or two strategies, but Zhao Huan just refused to adopt it and only believed Li Bangyan and Geng Nanzhong. What is the solution?

As soon as Xiao Zhonggong returned to Yanjing, he immediately handed the secret letter of wax balls written by Zhao Huan to Yelu Yuk to Wanyan Zongwang.

After seeing this, Wanyan Zongwang was extremely shocked and immediately sent a quick horse to send the wax balls to Xijing to hand them over to Wanyan Zonghan and Yelu Yujiu, currently serving as the Western Army Supervisor under Wanyan Zonghan.

After seeing this, Wanyan Zonghan immediately sent someone to go to Beijing and submitted the secret letter of wax balls to Wanyan Wuqi to buy.

At the same time, it was submitted to Wanyan Wuqi to buy another secret letter, written by Zhao Huan to Li Yan, which was about jointly raising troops to destroy the gold.

Unfortunately, this secret letter was also intercepted by Wanyan Zonghan's subordinates during the transmission.

After reading the two secret letters written by Zhao Huan, especially the letters written to Li Yan, Wanyan was shocked and immediately ordered a thorough investigation into whether the waters of Liangshan were intended to unite with the Song Dynasty to send troops together?

When the Jin people got the accurate news, Li Yan was still in the Indochina Peninsula and destroyed several countries in the Indochina Peninsula not long ago. After it was impossible to return in a short period of time, Wanyan Wu Qimai immediately convened a meeting to discuss how to punish the Song State.

After discussion, Wanyan Wu Qimai finally decided to send troops south to attack Song State again...

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Chapter completed!